New Book!

The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies–and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at home, more than half of all deaths take place in hospitals or health care facilities. At the End of Life tackles this conundrum head on. These twenty-two compelling personal-medical narratives explore death, dying and palliative care, and reveal the inner workings of a system in which doctors, patients and their loved ones battle to hang on–and to let go.

"An impressive, meaningful, and often courageous chorus of voices tackling a once-taboo subject with dignity..."

-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Truly gripping narratives that illuminate a hard truth about death in our culture: it is always so complicated, so much thornier than we think. ... [The] authors, and editor Lee Gutkind, deserve credit for being unsparingly honest about doctoring, about decision-making, about their own ambivalent emotions. They have a lot to teach us."